Antarktyda- Redux

Seals rest along the cracks in the sea ice.

Our Lady of the Snows Shrine, Hut Point, McMurdo

Our Lady of the Snows Shrine, Hut Point, McMurdo

Discovery Hut, Hut Point

Hut Point, McMurdo Sound

McMurdo Hut

During the brief summer in Antarctica, meltwater flows off the Canada Glacier and forms streams beside the glacier. Here, in mid-December, water has c...

The US Geological Survey operates this stream gage, which was established in 1993, in cooperation with the US National Science Foundation. It records...

Canada Glacier, Dry Valleys, Lake H

Andersen Creek

Canada Glacier, Dry Valleys, Lake H

Canada Glacier, Dry Valleys, Lake H

In the defiles beside the Suess Glacier

Mummified Seal Near the Suess Glacier

Mummified Seal Near the Suess Glacier

The permanently frozen lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys are covered with a layer of ice 4 meters (13 feet) thick. Beneath the 24-hour summer sun, the...

Between the Canada Glacier and Lake Fryxell

Rowboat attached to rope pulleys, used by scientists at Lake Fryxell to cross the melted margins during the warmer days in the austral summer.

Between the Canada Glacier and Lake Fryxell

Canada Glacier from Lake Fryxell Side

Canada Glacier from Lake Fryxell Side

Antarctica is a polar desert and snowstorms with heavy wet snow are extremely rare. After one dropped about four inches in the Dry Valleys, the lake s...

Mummified Seal, Lake Bonney, Dry Valleys

Dry Valleys, Lake Bonney

Bird Ventifact, Dry Valleys, Lake Bonney

Amy Chiuchiolo, a limnologist working in the Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research Site, prepares a measuring instrument to be lowered into a hole...

Panorama of an elevated plateau uphill from Lake Bonney. The side of the hill is covered with dark purplish soil.

Ventifact, Dry Valleys, Lake Bonney

Dry Valleys, Lake Bonney

Limnologists (lake scientists) working in the Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research Site, lower a measuring instrument into a hole bored through t...

Ventifact, Dry Valleys, Lake Bonney

A stratum of orange rocks winds across a hillside above Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley.

Flying into the McMurdo Dry Valleys from McMurdo Sound with the Kukri Hills in background on right.

View from helicopter flying close to an enormous iceberg grounded in the sea ice of McMurdo Sound.

Blood Falls, Antarctica

The crack resulted from a shift in the ice analogous to tectonic plates. The two cracks vertical relative to the picture plane are the direction of th...

Blood Falls, Antarctica

Blood Falls, Antarctica

Blood Falls, Antarctica

Mike Jackson, NSF Science Representative in foreground.

Approaching the Canada Glacier by helicopter

An enormous grounded iceberg in the sea ice in McMurdo Sound.

This aerial photograph, taken from a helicopter, shows some of the awe-inspiring forms taken by ocean ice in McMurdo Sound, part of the protected area...

Volcanic Rock

A newly hatched chick with the broken eggshell.

I spent several hours one raw and windy day looking for penguin chicks at the Cape Royds penguin colony research site. No chicks had been spotted yet...

On alternating days during the nesting season, Katie Dugger a population ecologist at Oregon State University, would make the rounds at the Cape Royds...

Behind the iceberg is a strange atmospheric effect called a fata morgana that occasionally occurs over bodies of water in polar regions and causes dis...

Penguin Subcolonies, Cape Royds

Largely ice-free areas of Cape Royds contain frozen inland freshwater lakes fed by the Mt. Erebus Glacier. These strange oblong were forms frozen into...